Family wide molecular adaptations to underground life in African mole-rats revealed by phylogenomic analysis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3089-3107

  Davies, Kalina T J ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^b   Tsagkogeorga, Georgia ^a   Rossiter, Stephen J ^a   Faulkes, Christopher G ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Mole rats; Positive selection; Subterranean

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCEPHALUS; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENOMICS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIETY; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLE RAT; PHYLOGENY; VETERINARY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; MOLE RATS; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84948659529     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv175     Document Type: Article

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